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TOPFIVE.COM'S LITTLE FIVERS -- MOVIES
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February 15, 2008
NOTE FROM KRISTIAN:
Okay, so I looked through my contributors'
submissions for this topic, chose the
funniest, composed the list, sent it in.
Chris White's assistant, the final proofer
before publishing, said she wouldn't email it
because of what I chose for the Number One.
Doesn't matter that film fans know the group
we teased makes a lot of wonderful, poetic films;
that I personally like women from said country;
or most importantly, that it's an obvious play on
fear-mongering. She just swore that Mr. White would
never let it fly and refused to publish it.
Consider this guerilla movie-list making.
The Top 9 Reasons to Go to a Foreign Film Festival
9. At the current rates of exchange it's a little cheaper than
actually going to the countries themselves.
8. Even if you don't speak a foreign language, dialogue is still
more intelligible than the last Sylvester Stallone film.
7. Anything to get out of Wisconsin in February.
6. Because nobody else understands that 20-minute scene you shot
of a woman staring out the window and sighing.
5. Gérard Depardieu owes you a drink.
4. More body hair in the nude scenes -- I mean, if you're into
that kind of thing, of course...
3. It's the only place where I feel comfortable wearing my kilt,
beret, ascot and monocle.
2. Because for some reason, Polanski won't go to Sundance.
and the Number 1 Reason to Go to a Foreign Film Festival...
1. It's nice to see what the Iranians are doing when they're
not terrorists.
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